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this one shows the president losing nevada but winning ohio, to get to 269 for both candidates. and late today, the "newshour" got word that romney will make a last-minute stop in pennsylvania over the weekend. we explore the race and the states in play with jonathan martin of politico and margaret talev of bloomberg news. welcome to you both. so let me start with you, jonathan. the president's back on the trail today. what is the state of this race? how do two campaigns see it? >> both are projecting confidence because that's what you do when you're four days out from election day, judy. but looking at the maps and the polling it's clear that president obama still has a narrow advantage in terms of how you get to 270 electoral votes. two big developments to me have happened in the last 48 hours. the first one is the kind of ads governor romney is running. you mentioned one of them in your piece, that's the one in florida linking president obama to chavez and castro. the other one in ohio where governor romney for the first time brings up the auto issue where he's been battered
this one shows the president losing nevada but winning ohio, to get to 269 for both candidates. and late today, the "newshour" got word that romney will make a last-minute stop in pennsylvania over the weekend. we explore the race and the states in play with jonathan martin of politico and margaret talev of bloomberg news. welcome to you both. so let me start with you, jonathan. the president's back on the trail today. what is the state of this race? how do two campaigns see it?...
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and they spent 22 debate, presidential candidates arguing about who was the most against or building the biggest, widest most daunting even electrified wall to keep people out. and mitt romney ran to the right of newt gingrich and rick perry. he was the most try ghent-- strident, round them up and toss them out of the country. >> energy time, and political capital to pass legislation state after state to make it more difficult to vote, primarily for latinos. and third they don't campaign in their neighborhoods or their community t they don't ask for their vote, and finally mitt romney and his unguarded moment at boca raton in his 47 percent speech taped without his knowledge says that he would be better off if he could run as a latino because his father was born in mexico. i mean if you are a 19 or 20-year-old latino this is going to cost your support for the republican party as a generation. they ignored george w. bush, jeb bush, his brother who has been quite enlightened on the subject and said you cannot, in this country, continue to win only with white people's votes. and i just,
and they spent 22 debate, presidential candidates arguing about who was the most against or building the biggest, widest most daunting even electrified wall to keep people out. and mitt romney ran to the right of newt gingrich and rick perry. he was the most try ghent-- strident, round them up and toss them out of the country. >> energy time, and political capital to pass legislation state after state to make it more difficult to vote, primarily for latinos. and third they don't campaign...
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on the heels of stops in nevada, colorado, and iowa. romney's day won't end until midnight after an election eve rally in manchester, new hampshire. >> woodruff: late monday in a surprise move romney announced he will hit the trail one final time tomorrow touching down on election day in both pennsylvania and ohio. margaret talked with romney's communications director, gail gitcho, about the campaign's micro-targeting "get out the vote" effort, called the orca project, named for the killer whale. find that video online. >> ifill: coming up, we'll have much more on the end to the campaign, including the final push in ohio; state of the race analysis from rothenberg, page, and kohut; voter access to polling places, and initiatives on the ballot; plus, the slow recovery after the storm, and a day in the life of a hard-hit brooklyn neighborhood. but first, with the other news of the day, here's hari sreenivasan. >> woodruff: the violence in syria swept up a new group today. fighting raged near a palestinian refugee camp in southern damascus
on the heels of stops in nevada, colorado, and iowa. romney's day won't end until midnight after an election eve rally in manchester, new hampshire. >> woodruff: late monday in a surprise move romney announced he will hit the trail one final time tomorrow touching down on election day in both pennsylvania and ohio. margaret talked with romney's communications director, gail gitcho, about the campaign's micro-targeting "get out the vote" effort, called the orca project, named for...
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at one point, his official plane, air force 2, could be seen on the tarmac along with the romney and ryan campaign plane. it all underscores how critical the battle ground states are expected to be tonight. but for many people living in the battle grounds, there also was palpable relief it's all coming to an end. voters in aurora, colorado, summed up their feelings. >> relieved. my phone has been ringing off the hook with "vote for this person." i got to the point where i just unplugged the phone. >> just too much. all these ads. i'm so glad it's over. i already had my mind made up a long time. >> reporter: indeed an estimated 46 million people were sure enough to vote early this time around. that's just more than a third of the 133 million ballots expected to be cast. >> ifill: two of our newshour colleagues are stationed at campaign headquarters, where they will be all night. ray suarez is in chicago with the obama team and he joins us now. ray, how did your sense is of what the mood is on the campaign this final day? >> well, they don't have much to say, frankly, from inside the b
at one point, his official plane, air force 2, could be seen on the tarmac along with the romney and ryan campaign plane. it all underscores how critical the battle ground states are expected to be tonight. but for many people living in the battle grounds, there also was palpable relief it's all coming to an end. voters in aurora, colorado, summed up their feelings. >> relieved. my phone has been ringing off the hook with "vote for this person." i got to the point where i just...
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, and obama would like $2.anist of spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases. can they sell that to their bases? much harder to know. >> woodruff: the president did reelection, he won barely, but he won a majority, being sent back to office-- into office for a second term. doesn't that count for something? >> it does count for something, judy. the president is the only nationally elected officeholder. each of the people who is elected and will be taking the oath of office on the first day of the new session is himed and herself elected as well. i just hope that the republicans would learn, and the democrats as well, from the great lesson of ronald reagan. take one of the great conservative icon's words, someone who is with us 80% of the time, he is our ally and friend-- or she is ally and friend now that there are so many women in the senate-- and not our opponent, not a traitor. and i think this has punished the republicans in their nominating process. i think sometimes it punishes the teams, this idea of ideological purity, and i hope that can be somehow subm
, and obama would like $2.anist of spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases. can they sell that to their bases? much harder to know. >> woodruff: the president did reelection, he won barely, but he won a majority, being sent back to office-- into office for a second term. doesn't that count for something? >> it does count for something, judy. the president is the only nationally elected officeholder. each of the people who is elected and will be taking the oath of office on the...
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and the 2000s which he did not mention when george 2 bush followed the policies very similar to what mitt romney is proposing, they actually added more than 1 million fewer private sect jobs ifct george bush's fit term than president obama has undethis first term so i really do not think that the basic economics or their history says that just going back to deregulation and high rate-- high incomba rate cuts is the thing that leads to growth.nc >> brown: and do you think professor -- >> two decades of strong growth, we saw two dade, 80ous and 90s with extraordinary growth. onomists called it the great moderationts long boom and that's because the stable policies are put in place. tax reform, if you like, of 1986. a bipartisan reform president reagan worked with democrats in congress, that is the kind of thing we nude to get the strong economy back. >> back to you professor goolsbee, just this question about -- >> i agree with that i think tax reform and ankrand bargain type budget deal if done in a balanced way would be a good achievementor both parties and whoever is elected on tues
and the 2000s which he did not mention when george 2 bush followed the policies very similar to what mitt romney is proposing, they actually added more than 1 million fewer private sect jobs ifct george bush's fit term than president obama has undethis first term so i really do not think that the basic economics or their history says that just going back to deregulation and high rate-- high incomba rate cuts is the thing that leads to growth.nc >> brown: and do you think professor --...
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to see questions traition of those automaticnd indiscriminate cuts that will take place in january 2 if the spending plan is not developed. here's a lot of attention, a lot of focus on what may happen after see questions traition. that will be deeply interestinge to those people who are making that kind of money because so much of that is oriented around the defense industry. >> sreenivasan: kathy lewis, thanks so much for your time. >> thank you. ifill: now let's go to 30,000 feet on this evening from presidential historians and newshour regulars michael beschloss and richard norton smith. you know, michael, i have heard time and time again throughout this campaign that this has been a campaign about small things. the bi picture was missing. is that really something that w just longed for and imagine it used to be is that real? >> i think it is real because in the old days the way that you would experience a candidate would be basically long speeches on central issues. for instance, williams jennings bryant and the cross of gold speech. most people would read it in the newspaper. th
to see questions traition of those automaticnd indiscriminate cuts that will take place in january 2 if the spending plan is not developed. here's a lot of attention, a lot of focus on what may happen after see questions traition. that will be deeply interestinge to those people who are making that kind of money because so much of that is oriented around the defense industry. >> sreenivasan: kathy lewis, thanks so much for your time. >> thank you. ifill: now let's go to 30,000 feet...
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it's 22 minutes after 9:00 on the east coast. we are able to project for the pennsylvania senate that bob casey is returning for a second term. >> ifill: he beat tom smith who was a very well known tea-part candidate. he put a lot of money in. >> $20 million of his own money. the democratic incumbent wins in michigan. >> woodruff: i remember the day when there weren't that many women. we've just announced three in a row. here in texas someone who will replace a woman in the senate. he is ted cruz. he has been very closely affiliated with the tea party. this is a win for the republicans in the state of texas and a very important win. >> ifill: and a rising star in the republican party. he had a big turn at the republican national convention as i recall. >> he is someone who has been around republican washington circles. some people don't think he's a rising star. some people doubt a little his star quality. >> ifill: we'll go to geoffrey brown speaking of star quality. >> brown: speaking of star quality, stu, well, and christina,
it's 22 minutes after 9:00 on the east coast. we are able to project for the pennsylvania senate that bob casey is returning for a second term. >> ifill: he beat tom smith who was a very well known tea-part candidate. he put a lot of money in. >> $20 million of his own money. the democratic incumbent wins in michigan. >> woodruff: i remember the day when there weren't that many women. we've just announced three in a row. here in texas someone who will replace a woman in the...